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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A critical thinking based course designed to introduce students to various communication contexts. Special emphasis is placed on adapting communication style and content to diverse cultural audiences. The course includes practice in public address and small group communication. This class fulfills the oral communication requirement.
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3.00 Credits
A communication course designed to give the student a better understanding of dyadic communication. Emphasis is on how we communicate interpersonally and how we might choose to change our communication in the areas of listening, disclosure, and conflict.
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to the study of communication, culture, and intercultural communication. Students will become aware of the ability of culture to shape and modify personal views or reality through differing perceptions of world view, family experiences, history, and verbal and nonverbal message systems. How diverse cultures communicate in business, educational, and health settings will be addressed. Application of intercultural communication theory and principles will be practiced throughout the course.
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3.00 Credits
Patterns of public and interpersonal communication among and between cultures and groups, including North American minority cultures, will be explored. Strategies for understanding group identity, difficulties in inter-group communication, and communication skills for improving quality of interactions will be given emphasis.
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3.00 Credits
A review of the ways in which mass mediation has transformed individuals, politics, and society. This course will assess current debate over the role of the media in society and emphasize the arguments and strategies of argument used in debating this topic.
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3.00 Credits
This course will extend the students’ knowledge of public communication by giving them advanced practice. Emphasis will be placed on developing and demonstrating advanced presentational skills in various public communication contexts, such as community presentations, press conferences, media interviews and persuasive speaking to hostile audiences. In addition to developing platform speaking skills, emphasis is placed on critical evaluation and the situational/historical/cultural determinants of effective discourse.
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3.00 Credits
A management-oriented course emphasizing theories and channels on communication, semantic problems, and other barriers to effective communication with emphasis on both oral and written communications.
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3.00 Credits
A basic course that focuses on practical and theoretical elements of communicating in today’s culturally diverse business setting. Students will learn communication processes and basic concepts of interpersonal, group, and organizational communication. Assignments include interviews, reports, and individual or group presentations.
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3.00 Credits
Offers the student principles, practice, and theory in leading and participating in small group communication. Emphasizes student involvement in groups. Examines and applies factors, which affect the quality of communication processes, interpersonal and task behaviors, leadership and participation, ethical considerations, group norms and cohesiveness, decision making and conflict resolution, and group evaluation options.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of the criminal justice system, its history, philosophical background, constitutional limitations, and the processes for achieving its goals. Also included are the contemporary trends in the system on the local and national levels.
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